Archive for December, 2003

Final installment on Windows-to-Linux Roadmap

Monday, December 22nd, 2003 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Finishing up my review of the Windows-to-Linux series on IBM. Part 6 covered partitions and file systems. The author did a great job with mount and /etc/fstab. I was ... Read more..

"The beaver is out of detox"

Thursday, December 18th, 2003 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

"The beaver is out of detox" - Anon This is how Linus Torvald started his announcement of the official release of the 2.6 kernel. I've quoted the entire announcement for you here ... Read more..

Manage Your Services Easily With chkconfig

Sunday, December 14th, 2003 Posted in How-Tos | No Comments »

I'm here at the Atlanta airport waiting for my flight to Raleigh-Durham for my second set of RedHat training. The first class I took about a month or so ago taught me ... Read more..

Dailystrips

Sunday, December 14th, 2003 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Dailystrips I have read the comic strips in my local newspaper since my Elementary school days and I still laugh at comics like Peanuts, B.C., and Beetle Bailey, as well ... Read more..

My Story: Installing a TapeDrive and Using It

Thursday, December 11th, 2003 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Well, it seems I took off a couple weeks. I trust everyone had a good Thanksgiving. (I took off from writing an article, but hopefully you didn't notice as you ... Read more..

Is Nothing Better Than Blank Space? In a File Name It Is!

Friday, December 5th, 2003 Posted in How-Tos | No Comments »

Have you ever downloaded a set of great independent music, only to find that there's spaces in the filenames? This just happened to me while I was downloading all the songs by Trance[]Control ... Read more..

Check the MD5 Checksums

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2003 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I'll say it again, "Check the MD5 Checksums!" Being a newbie myself, I've never bothered taking the time to do the check. I've probably downloaded close to 10 ... Read more..

Mondo Rescue Disaster Recovery Suit

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2003 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

For the past few weeks, I have been checking out Mondo Rescue, which is intended as [from the Mondo WEB site] "a disaster recovery suite for Linux and Windows". ... Read more..

November Distribution Release List

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2003 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Reader Nathan Thompson has put together a Distribution Release List for November from announcements at DistroWatch using some software he designed for the purpose. Come on in and check out ... Read more..